1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:04,040 Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp the 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:08,160 Speaker 1: House Whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app. Your 3 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: guide every week to better understand that place where you live. 4 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,320 Speaker 1: Here to tell you, here to encourage you every week. 5 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:17,920 Speaker 1: Every home has a path forward once you see it, 6 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 1: Seeing it is the key. Once you see the path, 7 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 1: everything changes. Everything changes, And that's what we're about. That's 8 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 1: actually what I'm spending some time talking about today. This 9 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 1: is our second installment. We had one the first installment 10 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 1: on the January fourth show. You can go back into 11 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 1: the podcast find that episode and listen to it. That 12 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:39,480 Speaker 1: was the first installment of Designing Like a House Whisperer, 13 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:42,840 Speaker 1: And today is the second installment where we're taking your 14 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 1: new observational capacities and we're putting them to work on 15 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:49,880 Speaker 1: specific tasks of looking at the orientation of your home 16 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 1: and the situation of your property where it sits. More 17 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 1: on that in just in fact, we're going to go 18 00:00:56,560 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 1: back to that conversation when we right after the next break, 19 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 1: and we will continue that and finish that out today. 20 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 1: But yeah, if I was a member of the Magical 21 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 1: the Magician's Guild of America, they'd be kicking me out 22 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:13,760 Speaker 1: right now. I'm like that guy. Remember that show on TV. 23 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 1: There was a while where the magician who wore like 24 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:19,959 Speaker 1: the wrestler's mask, the masked Magician, He would come on 25 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 1: and he would basically just like show you it was wrong, 26 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 1: it was wrong. He would show you how all the 27 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 1: tricks are done. And that's just not that's not right, 28 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:33,399 Speaker 1: that's not cool. But when it comes to design and 29 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 1: the stuff that you know gets kind of attributed to house, 30 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 1: the house whisper right. The magic that we do, it's 31 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 1: not really magic, it's fundamental design. And you know what, 32 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:46,399 Speaker 1: I could have chosen to just hoard it all to 33 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 1: myself and just stay magical. But what I really really 34 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 1: want is to equip homeowners to start understanding their homes 35 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: the way I understand your home, the way I see 36 00:01:57,520 --> 00:01:59,280 Speaker 1: your home, see your home the way I see it 37 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: full of potential. But let's get our priorities right. Let's 38 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 1: take a look at these fundamental design principles how they apply, 39 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:10,160 Speaker 1: so that we really know that we're addressing the things 40 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 1: that really really will transform and change a home that 41 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 1: may not just be limited to or even first and foremost, 42 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:23,640 Speaker 1: you know, remodeling, the hall bathroom. All right, I'm not 43 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 1: poop pooing that idea. I'm just saying, let's find out 44 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: where the real transformative areas are for your home and 45 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: start making plans in those directions. Anyway, we'll get back 46 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:37,639 Speaker 1: to that conversation in a bit. How's the show so far, Bud? 47 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 1: I think it's great. Yeah, you having fun. I've been 48 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 1: enjoying it. I've been listening on the iHeart app as 49 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 1: I've been working the yard. It's kind of nice to 50 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:51,079 Speaker 1: step away and just listen the way that our audience 51 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 1: you still want to be with me. I love being 52 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:55,679 Speaker 1: with you, but I also like working in the yard. 53 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:00,919 Speaker 1: So sounding good, you're enjoying it. It is different perspective 54 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 1: to actually hear the show than to do the show. 55 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 1: So anyway, all right, well back to your gardening you 56 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 1: I'm done. Oh goodness. All right, we got to figure 57 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: out what we're going to have to eat during the 58 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 1: super Bowl. That's your official assignment. Now, okay, all right, 59 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:21,839 Speaker 1: that sounds good. All right. Also, let me get back 60 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 1: to uh that that I have Pat on the line. Pat, 61 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 1: are you still there, Bud? 62 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 2: I am here? 63 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 1: Okay, So, uh Patt called and his wife was concerned 64 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:37,760 Speaker 1: about LVP Luxury vinyl plank and off dancing, and they've 65 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 1: their contractor is kind of pushing them in the direction 66 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 1: of new laminate flooring instead of LVP and UH. I 67 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 1: already kind of talked about the fact that all of 68 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 1: these products off gas to a certain degree, but there 69 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 1: are some really great ones out there that have very 70 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 1: low VOCs compared to very high VOCs VOC meaning volatile 71 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 1: organic compounds. And yeah, I'm one hundred percent, one hundred 72 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 1: and fifty percent in support of the products that have 73 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 1: gone out of their way to reduce the VOCs to 74 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 1: the bare minimums. But I do also just want to 75 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 1: make sure that everybody knows there is some off gassing 76 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:18,160 Speaker 1: no matter what. I have yet to hear of the 77 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 1: product with zero VOCs that actually holds up on a floor. 78 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 1: So FYI, But Pat, I wanted to keep you on 79 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 1: because I wanted to finish the conversation about lamin. It's 80 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 1: because you you raise an interesting subject that I haven't 81 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 1: necessarily addressed yet in the last few months, and that 82 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 1: is lamin. It is back. It's back. Lamin It was 83 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 1: a thing. It was a major thing several several years 84 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: ago as a potential floating floor replacement, less expensive alternative 85 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 1: to hardwood floors because it had a hard surface and 86 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:01,040 Speaker 1: attractive surface and water resistant on the surface, and so 87 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 1: everybody was putting in. Laminate was kind of led by 88 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 1: Home Depot introducing Pergo to the American market, you know, 89 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 1: just twenty plus years ago. Now. Then what happened was 90 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:16,599 Speaker 1: people were getting frustrated because even though the surface of 91 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:20,080 Speaker 1: laminate can be very water resistant, you have a flood 92 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: or water gets underneath, and the soft underbelly, the wood 93 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 1: core of laminate, the particle core, that stuff swells like crazy, 94 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 1: and whole floors can be ruined in when there's a 95 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 1: serious water leak or a flood, not just you know, 96 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 1: spilling a glass of water on the surface of the floor. 97 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: And that's when Luxury Vinyl Plank came rushing in and saying, hey, 98 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:47,039 Speaker 1: forget about this laminate stuff. We're even less expensive, we 99 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 1: got a good look, and we're one hundred percent water 100 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:53,599 Speaker 1: proof through and through. And now for the last few years, 101 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 1: Luxury Vinyl Plank has dominated the alternative flooring market. It's 102 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 1: all been about LVP is awesome, lambin it sucks well. 103 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 1: It was just a matter of time. And I'm just 104 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: letting you guys know laminate is back on the table. 105 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 1: Why for the exact reason that you know we were 106 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:17,720 Speaker 1: talking about with Pat here, and that is there are 107 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:21,679 Speaker 1: several not all, and this is why I'm belaboring this point. 108 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 1: There are several new laminates not only with low VOCs, 109 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:28,840 Speaker 1: but with water proof cores on the market. And that 110 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 1: means that that laminate surface, which has the ability to 111 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 1: replicate wood better than LVP, that laminate surface now is 112 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 1: an option once again because waterproof through and through and 113 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 1: so yeah, laminate is back. It's a contender that we 114 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:51,480 Speaker 1: have to discuss with every opportunity. Now. The key though 115 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:53,720 Speaker 1: is when you guys are looking at them, Pat, when 116 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:57,599 Speaker 1: you're looking at those options, be very very careful about 117 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 1: the language, because there is not a single go laminate 118 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:05,159 Speaker 1: manufacture out there that doesn't tout the waterproof nature of 119 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 1: their product. Right. What you need to do is dig 120 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 1: below the surface literally, because what we want to see 121 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: is not waterproof surface. All of them are that way. 122 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 1: We want a waterproof core. The waterproof core. Laminates are 123 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 1: one hundred percent waterproof through and through. Not only are 124 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 1: they going to resist spills and everything that happens up top. 125 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 1: But when the dishwasher floods, or the roof leaks, or 126 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: you know, you know whatever, the pipe bursts, those floors 127 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 1: hold up as well. They're not going to swell and 128 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 1: buckle and cup because the core is as waterproof as 129 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 1: the surface. So that's the key. That's why I want 130 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:46,680 Speaker 1: you to hang on pat so that you guys know, 131 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 1: buyer beware. Everything is marketed in the laminate world is 132 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 1: one hundred percent waterproof on the surface. The ones that 133 00:07:57,080 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 1: it's like an organic product. If you've gone to the 134 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 1: trouble of making your product or your food organically and 135 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: selling it that way, you're going to hear about it. 136 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 1: You're going to advertise that right up front. So you 137 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 1: want to find the manufacturers that are saying our core, 138 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 1: the core underneath the surface of that laminate, the core 139 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 1: is waterproof. 140 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:20,120 Speaker 2: Does that make sense, Betty, it really does. Yeah. You 141 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:24,680 Speaker 2: kind of outlined everything we should consider, and we do 142 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 2: have LVP in our current home and it's very comfortable, 143 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:33,959 Speaker 2: so the harder surface may not be really what we're after, 144 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:38,079 Speaker 2: but the off gassing is key. I wanna going to 145 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:40,199 Speaker 2: ask a lot of questions to the flooring. 146 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 1: Guy there you go. 147 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 2: We've got one quick little question if if you have 148 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 2: a minute. We are putting this in the bathroom, whatever 149 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 2: floor we decide, and we put a new wall in. 150 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 2: I asked the contractor to get rid of the tile 151 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:02,840 Speaker 2: where the new is going. It's into a walk in closet. 152 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:08,080 Speaker 2: And I noticed on the picture he sent me the 153 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 2: walls on top of the old tile that's got to 154 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 2: go away. Do you have a recommendation on should he 155 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 2: try and cut the tile along the edge of the 156 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 2: wall so the flooring guy can remove that. I don't 157 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 2: know what to do. 158 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:23,560 Speaker 1: I got you, I got you, very simply put, and 159 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 1: then I got a run because we're up against a 160 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 1: break here. But very simply put. Get that tile out 161 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:31,680 Speaker 1: from underneath that wall. And the way to do it 162 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:34,439 Speaker 1: is cut it all away and then have him start 163 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 1: blasting it out from the side. Blasting that tile out 164 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:39,959 Speaker 1: from the side and replacing it in sections, because you 165 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 1: don't want the wall dropping. So you're gonna blast out 166 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 1: a portion of tile and you can replace it with 167 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 1: a with a pressure treated that's moisture resistant plywood of 168 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 1: the same thickness, So you take out a section, shove 169 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 1: in the plywood to basically pad up the wall, take 170 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 1: out the other sections and then shove the plywood in 171 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:00,720 Speaker 1: so without moving the wall, you can knock the tile 172 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:04,240 Speaker 1: out from underneath and the wall is still stable and 173 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 1: you now you've got a solid wood all the way 174 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:09,400 Speaker 1: down to the slab or the base, and then start 175 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:12,200 Speaker 1: over fresh from there. All right, y'all when we come 176 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:16,800 Speaker 1: back more about addressing the contours, the situation and the 177 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 1: orientation of your home. I thank all of our callers 178 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:23,600 Speaker 1: great calls today. We'll get back to our main conversation 179 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:27,120 Speaker 1: right after this your Home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisperer. 180 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 181 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:33,560 Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty. 182 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 1: Let's get back to our conversation about the orientation of 183 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:40,960 Speaker 1: your home. It's installment two so far this year of 184 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:46,319 Speaker 1: our series designing like a House whisper the true transformation 185 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 1: of your home by unleashing the most powerful design principles possible. 186 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:55,080 Speaker 1: And when our first installment was all about making you 187 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:00,080 Speaker 1: see things better, overcoming your house blindness, now we're putting 188 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:04,320 Speaker 1: that new vision to work with what we call outsite, 189 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:08,320 Speaker 1: not insight into your own personal but outside, really seeing 190 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:11,960 Speaker 1: what's there and what we're looking at to start is 191 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,320 Speaker 1: the orientation in the situation of your home. We've talked 192 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:18,960 Speaker 1: about getting out the compass, figuring out what direction your 193 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 1: property faces, what direction your home faces, and understanding the 194 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:27,199 Speaker 1: path of the sun as it travels across the sky 195 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:31,719 Speaker 1: where you live. Now, if you live anywhere near southern California, 196 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:36,640 Speaker 1: the sun is rising almost exactly, almost exactly due east, 197 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:41,320 Speaker 1: and it sets almost exactly due west, close enough for 198 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:45,560 Speaker 1: any of our concerns and considerations. And because we're in 199 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:49,680 Speaker 1: the northern hemisphere, the sun is always slightly at least 200 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:52,680 Speaker 1: slightly in the southern sun. Now, the further north you 201 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:56,640 Speaker 1: get during the winter, the more the sun drops lower 202 00:11:56,679 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 1: and lower and lower during the winter months. But even 203 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:02,679 Speaker 1: here in Sokol, during the summer, the sun is up 204 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:07,360 Speaker 1: at about eighty degrees Okay, not ninety, not directly overhead. 205 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 1: You may think so, because you know who's going to 206 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:11,160 Speaker 1: look up and stare at it and figure out that 207 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:15,679 Speaker 1: last ten percent. Well, science do they do that kind 208 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:18,480 Speaker 1: of stuff. But the highest the sun ever gets in 209 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:23,079 Speaker 1: our sky is about ten degrees shy of directly overhead, 210 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:26,720 Speaker 1: always in the south, always throwing its shadows a little 211 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:29,640 Speaker 1: bit to the north, and in the winter, like right now, 212 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:34,560 Speaker 1: the sun is traveling at about thirty two to thirty 213 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:39,720 Speaker 1: four degrees across the southern sky, very low in the sky. 214 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 1: That's a forty six degree difference between summer and winter 215 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:47,880 Speaker 1: the path of the sun. Understanding that and how that 216 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:53,200 Speaker 1: relates to shadows and direct sunlight and so on is important. 217 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 1: Somebody asked me during the break, well, why does it matter? 218 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:58,319 Speaker 1: I get the south and north thing deemed, but why 219 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 1: does the angle of the sun matter. Well, you may 220 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 1: have southern facing windows that during the summer don't get 221 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:07,320 Speaker 1: direct sunlight in them very much because the sky the 222 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 1: sun is so directly overhead. But during the winter the 223 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:16,320 Speaker 1: sun is so low. Now like headlights from oncoming traffic, 224 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 1: the sun may be shining directly into the room and 225 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 1: those that direct sunlight reaching way way into the room. 226 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 1: So yeah, it's important to understand all of it. We've 227 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:30,559 Speaker 1: talked about north and south light, We've talked about east 228 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 1: and west windows and your best shot at capturing sunrises 229 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 1: and sunsets and simply being aware of it. We're not 230 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:40,960 Speaker 1: trying to solve problems yet, we are simply observing what 231 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 1: are the conditions on the scene. Okay, now let's talk 232 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 1: about the land itself. Which direction does your lot face. 233 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:51,920 Speaker 1: You may have a square lot, pizza property. It may 234 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:55,840 Speaker 1: be high shaped, it may be long and rectangular. But 235 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:59,280 Speaker 1: to understand where those opportunities are. Where is the sun 236 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:02,839 Speaker 1: as it moves across the sky, what is the topography. 237 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:05,200 Speaker 1: This is the next thing that we're going to tackle, 238 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 1: and we'll do it right after this. You are Home 239 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:09,760 Speaker 1: with Dean Sharp the House Whispers. 240 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:13,719 Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 241 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:15,280 Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty. 242 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 1: We're talking about the fundamentals of situation and orientation for 243 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: your home. These are design fundumbmentals that every designer worth 244 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:30,880 Speaker 1: their salt and their airgo you should be conscious of 245 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 1: in regards to your home. Tina and I, we're just 246 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 1: starting a new project for a client. We started this week. 247 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:44,080 Speaker 1: It's a house in Beverly Glen Over on the Beverly 248 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:46,960 Speaker 1: Hills side of the hill, not the valley side, but 249 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 1: the Beverly Hills side on the hill and house built 250 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 1: in the thirties and this particular client looking for an 251 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 1: adu in the back and the flat part of the 252 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 1: property relatively small. We've got to be very very careful 253 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 1: about how we position and how we design this little 254 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:10,000 Speaker 1: one bedroom kind of studio ADU. And again, as always, 255 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 1: we were there to measure up the house, to build 256 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 1: the existing house into our computer so that we have 257 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:19,680 Speaker 1: a three D model of the property. And we always 258 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:22,800 Speaker 1: show up with lasers and tape measures and take dimension 259 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 1: and stuff. But then we also always always walk the 260 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:30,200 Speaker 1: property with the video on of our cameras and making 261 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 1: comments about everything, forcing ourselves to see everything, standing out 262 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 1: where the ADU is going to go, looking around, and 263 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:44,240 Speaker 1: just consciously saying out loud what it is that we see, 264 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:47,720 Speaker 1: so that we're not missing anything. You know, It's like, oh, 265 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:51,200 Speaker 1: large pine tree growing on the far side of the house, 266 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 1: maybe sixty feet tall, to the northwest corner of the house. 267 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: As we scan over, Oh there's a telephone line. Here's 268 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 1: a telephone pole coming down in the corner of the property. 269 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 1: Power lines visible or not visible? How much of the 270 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 1: neighbor is visible, what part of the neighbors are visible, 271 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:12,760 Speaker 1: How tall is the wall, and on and on and 272 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 1: on we go, add infinitum. Why because it's all going 273 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: to be relevant. No, not necessarily, but some of it 274 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 1: very very relevant. As to sitelines where we might put 275 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 1: landscaping to cover up and to shade where we might 276 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:34,880 Speaker 1: put landscaping to eliminate features that we just don't want 277 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:38,359 Speaker 1: to look at, like power poles in my own backyard. 278 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 1: That's something that Tina and I apply everywhere we go. 279 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:46,000 Speaker 1: In our own backyard, we have basically positioned from the 280 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 1: primary viewing spot of the main deck near the fire pit, 281 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 1: we have positioned the planting of our trees, two of 282 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 1: our sycamore trees, specifically to be in the sightline of 283 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 1: the telephone pole, the power poles that run along the 284 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 1: backside of our property. There are two of them. One 285 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: is right in the corner and the other is across 286 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,919 Speaker 1: the street but still visible from us, And so we 287 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:12,040 Speaker 1: align those sidelines so when those trees are in full bloom. 288 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 1: Now there's nothing we can do about it right now 289 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:16,160 Speaker 1: this time of year, because the sycamore trees have lost 290 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:19,520 Speaker 1: all their leaves. But the point is for the rest 291 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:21,960 Speaker 1: of the year, nine months plus out of the year, 292 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:25,959 Speaker 1: those tree canopies are full and those power lines no 293 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:29,560 Speaker 1: longer exist, not in my yard, not in my yard, 294 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:33,439 Speaker 1: And so that's part of the retreat like garden that 295 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:39,440 Speaker 1: our rear yard becomes why being conscious of everything that's 296 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 1: visible in the yard and that you know, is the 297 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 1: intro to the situation of your property. We've talked about 298 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 1: sun and the points of the compass and understanding all 299 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:54,240 Speaker 1: of that. The situation of your property is its topography. 300 00:17:55,119 --> 00:17:58,120 Speaker 1: Is it a flat lot, is it slightly sloped? Which 301 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:02,679 Speaker 1: direction is it sloping? Is it hilly? Are you a 302 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:06,760 Speaker 1: hillside property? Want to be super aware of all these 303 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 1: things and how they affect what's possible with the house. 304 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:15,359 Speaker 1: Topography for the home very very important. Let me give 305 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 1: you one little example of why this is important. We 306 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:24,480 Speaker 1: had some clients who had a home essentially a hillside home. 307 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:28,480 Speaker 1: The house itself sitting on flat land, but the hillside 308 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 1: took over in the backyard almost immediately, and so they 309 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:35,800 Speaker 1: had a deck. Their rear yard essentially was a deck okay, 310 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:39,800 Speaker 1: that extended out from the house, rising up above this hillside. 311 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:42,400 Speaker 1: You can kind of picture that, right, the hillside drops down, 312 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 1: the deck shoots out. That's the rear yard. This particular hillside, though, 313 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:50,760 Speaker 1: it was in a little ravine, and this ravine was virgins, 314 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:54,000 Speaker 1: you know, beautiful trees and plants, and they were on 315 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 1: the other side of the ravine from neighbors on the 316 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:59,480 Speaker 1: way over on the other side, lots of trees and 317 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:02,239 Speaker 1: all that stuff now, And they had initially called us 318 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:05,640 Speaker 1: out and said, okay, we've had contractors out here, we've 319 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,880 Speaker 1: had architects out here, we've had some other designers out here, 320 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:13,600 Speaker 1: everybody making suggestions about how to just make a more 321 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:16,639 Speaker 1: expansive feel. We want this place at night time to 322 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:19,840 Speaker 1: just feel better. And so there were all sorts of 323 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 1: structural suggestions about adding to the deck and you know, 324 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:27,040 Speaker 1: tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of dollars of adding 325 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:30,480 Speaker 1: to the deck and special hillside allowance permits and all 326 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:34,879 Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. I sat out there for about 327 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:38,199 Speaker 1: an hour looking around, and then it dawned on me 328 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 1: what it is that I was actually seeing. And I 329 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:43,879 Speaker 1: told the homeowner, Hey, when you're getting home from work today, 330 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:46,680 Speaker 1: he said, oh, about five o'clock. I said, perfect, meet 331 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:50,440 Speaker 1: me here if you don't mind, at about six o'clock, 332 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:56,240 Speaker 1: and we're going to spend one hundred dollars and transform 333 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:59,920 Speaker 1: the backside of this property. And he was like, you're 334 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:03,760 Speaker 1: kidding me, right, I'm like, nope, I'm serious. So we 335 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:07,040 Speaker 1: met and what I did. I showed up with two 336 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 1: large temporary work lights, just worklights that I had out 337 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:14,880 Speaker 1: of my shed, big big floodlights, the large lumen floodlights 338 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:17,359 Speaker 1: and an extension cord, and I said, this is just 339 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:20,400 Speaker 1: a temporary example. And before the homeowner had come out, 340 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:25,560 Speaker 1: I'd put these floodlights down underneath the deck facing out 341 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:29,720 Speaker 1: at the ravine, okay, and I'd run an extension cord 342 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:32,320 Speaker 1: to them. So the owner came out. It was very dramatic. 343 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 1: The owner came out, He's like, all right, Dean, what's 344 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,080 Speaker 1: the plan. The sun is almost down. I'm like, I know, 345 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:38,200 Speaker 1: I'm waiting for it to go down. And as soon 346 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:40,760 Speaker 1: as it goes down, I grabbed I said, grab that 347 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:44,399 Speaker 1: extension cord there and plug in that plug. And he 348 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:49,399 Speaker 1: plugged in the plug. It's nighttime now, and suddenly all 349 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 1: of the beautiful plants, the big oak trees, the pine 350 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:56,640 Speaker 1: trees out in the ravine, they all lit up. They 351 00:20:56,680 --> 00:21:01,000 Speaker 1: all lit up and became visible from his deck at night. Now. 352 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 1: It was a situation where these floodlights were not going 353 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 1: to be shining into anybody's neighbor's windows. It wasn't going 354 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:11,480 Speaker 1: to be disturbing anybody but I had one floodlight, like 355 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:15,240 Speaker 1: up on his neighbor's tree canopy, not into the neighbor's yard, 356 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,439 Speaker 1: just on the tree canopy. We lit up all of 357 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:22,199 Speaker 1: this gorgeous landscaping at night, and I said, what do 358 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:25,000 Speaker 1: you think? And he's like, oh my god, this is dramatic, 359 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:28,160 Speaker 1: all of this visible here and now from my deck. 360 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 1: I said, yeah, and none of it's yours during the day. 361 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 1: But at night, if you're the one who lights it up, 362 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 1: you own it. It's part of your landscape. One hundred dollars, 363 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:39,879 Speaker 1: this is what it's going to take to run those floodlights. 364 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:45,320 Speaker 1: What was that? The result of me taking time, forcing 365 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:49,520 Speaker 1: myself to see the situation of the topography of the 366 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:53,080 Speaker 1: house and asking the question, how can this help us? 367 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:57,199 Speaker 1: How can this help solve this problem? He was pretty 368 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 1: dang close to spending one hundred thousand on altering his 369 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 1: deck to somehow make it feel roomier at night. The 370 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:08,959 Speaker 1: deck was large. What was missing was the fact that 371 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,480 Speaker 1: at night the deck just ended and you didn't see 372 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:15,920 Speaker 1: anything else. You didn't have the advantage of seeing everything 373 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:19,119 Speaker 1: you see during the day. Until I lit up the 374 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 1: ravine with a couple of floodlights. And it was a 375 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 1: game changer. All of that comes from and yeah, I 376 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,639 Speaker 1: get credit for being the magician who did that, but 377 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:34,240 Speaker 1: that simply comes from taking the time to see the situation, 378 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 1: to really see it. Until you see it, you keep 379 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:41,480 Speaker 1: looking at it until you see it. Okay, a little 380 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:44,040 Speaker 1: more on this on the other side, your Home with 381 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:45,920 Speaker 1: Dean Sharp, the house whisper. 382 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:50,160 Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 383 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:51,680 Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty. 384 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 1: All right, we have spent our morning. I still have 385 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 1: a few more comments for you. Spent our morning talking 386 00:22:56,480 --> 00:23:00,720 Speaker 1: about the orientation and situation of your house and your 387 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 1: awareness of those things and how that is fundamental. It 388 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,920 Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily mean that you walk through all these steps 389 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 1: and you suddenly discover aha, it's this. No. No, you 390 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:16,560 Speaker 1: may have a fine orientation and situation and there may 391 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:20,680 Speaker 1: be no ramifications of it, but we want to make 392 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:23,040 Speaker 1: sure this is a this is a part of the 393 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:28,239 Speaker 1: fundamental checklist for beginning design transformation on your home that 394 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 1: we never ever, ever did I say that enough ever 395 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:38,880 Speaker 1: ever skip past, never, never skip past. Today's a super 396 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 1: Bowl and it's a great example. Been a lot of 397 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,040 Speaker 1: watching a lot of you know, championship football, and you 398 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:48,440 Speaker 1: watch teams play and any sporting team and it reminds 399 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 1: me back in my days when I was a kid 400 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:53,440 Speaker 1: and I came out to a thousand oaks to go 401 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 1: to John Wooden basketball camp that my parents sent me 402 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:00,119 Speaker 1: to for three consecutive summers. It was great, great, and 403 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,720 Speaker 1: I got to meet John Wooden, this legendary coach. And 404 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:06,880 Speaker 1: of course, of all things that John Wooden was famous for, 405 00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:13,000 Speaker 1: it was the mastery, demanding that his players mastered the fundamentals, 406 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 1: and that is carried over into my life. It's been 407 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 1: one of those voices that has resonated with me down 408 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:21,280 Speaker 1: through the years. There is no moving on to better 409 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 1: things without mastering the fundamentals. And watching football, we'll see 410 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:30,120 Speaker 1: it today. We'll see it today. Which teams are building 411 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 1: on top of the fundamentals and which teams are simply 412 00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:38,040 Speaker 1: forgetting fundamental football. And when they do, they will fail. 413 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:43,160 Speaker 1: I guarantee you they will fail. Fundamentals are critical. Orientation 414 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:46,880 Speaker 1: and situation of your home is critical. There's no jumping 415 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,640 Speaker 1: over it, no shortcuts around it. You're going to miss 416 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:55,560 Speaker 1: important things unless you move through this phase. The most 417 00:24:55,600 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 1: fundamental factors, the compass, the sun, the topography and other 418 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 1: things too. The soil quality of the property. You should know. 419 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:10,479 Speaker 1: You should know what kind of soil you're sitting on, 420 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:13,359 Speaker 1: and if you haven't done that, there are ways of 421 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 1: testing it. You can grab soil samples and send them 422 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:19,639 Speaker 1: off relatively and expensively. You should understand that you can 423 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,480 Speaker 1: look at past soils reports for your property, past real 424 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,160 Speaker 1: estate reports for your property. You should know whether your 425 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:29,119 Speaker 1: soil is sandy or loamy or full of clay, because 426 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 1: it's affects the way you choose plants, the way you irrigate, 427 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 1: also the way that you build. Okay, all of that's important. 428 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:39,879 Speaker 1: You should be aware of the vegetation that naturally grows 429 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 1: on your property, the trees that want to grow, the 430 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:45,120 Speaker 1: trees that don't want to grow on your property. The 431 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:48,439 Speaker 1: wind and the weather. Where does it come from. If 432 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 1: you're coastal, you've got onshore winds constantly approaching your house. 433 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:56,680 Speaker 1: If you're not coastal, you might have because of the 434 00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:00,159 Speaker 1: passes in the mountains near you. It might be mostly 435 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:04,040 Speaker 1: northern winds coming blowing south. Maybe it's southern winds, maybe 436 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,959 Speaker 1: it's the Santa Anas. You want to be aware of 437 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,439 Speaker 1: it all you want to write it all down. You 438 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 1: want to keep your notes as you begin this process 439 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:17,040 Speaker 1: of transforming your home, and as you're looking around the 440 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:19,760 Speaker 1: property and just seeing it. What are the conclusions? Well, 441 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:21,760 Speaker 1: you know what, we're trying to look at everything. We're 442 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 1: also trying to listen to everything. You want to see 443 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:28,480 Speaker 1: the positive sights, the great vistas, the tree canopies, the sunrise, 444 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:32,159 Speaker 1: the sunset, the sky, the stars, how it all works 445 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 1: at its best. You want to see the negative sights. 446 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:36,959 Speaker 1: How much of your neighbor's home do you see? The 447 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:40,400 Speaker 1: power lines, the ugly trees, the ugly walls, are fences, 448 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,440 Speaker 1: the street lights. Occasionally the street lights are a positive 449 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 1: if it's a grand old street light. What's the worst 450 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 1: place to stand in your yard? What's the best place 451 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 1: to stand in your yard? Same true with the house. 452 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:57,640 Speaker 1: What's the best place in your house to be? Don't 453 00:26:57,640 --> 00:26:59,919 Speaker 1: even think about the fact that what room it's in, 454 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:05,440 Speaker 1: just spatially emotionally, what's the best place to be in 455 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:09,000 Speaker 1: your home? Okay, is it an important room? It probably 456 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:12,560 Speaker 1: should be. If that's the very very best spot, why 457 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:16,560 Speaker 1: not make that the center of most of your life 458 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:19,720 Speaker 1: in the house. These are things to consider positive sounds. 459 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:24,680 Speaker 1: Maybe you've got wind, waves, water birds, song owls, coyotes, 460 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:33,679 Speaker 1: negative sounds, traffic, freeway, airplanes, industry, coyotes. It just depends 461 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:35,240 Speaker 1: on what you think about them. 462 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:35,440 Speaker 2: All. 463 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 1: Okay, what parts of all of this are visual and 464 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 1: hearable from each room, from each window, from each door. Okay, 465 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,160 Speaker 1: these are what we're looking for. And then the conclusions 466 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 1: that we draw are those things. Where's the best place 467 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 1: in the yard, the worst place in the yard, what 468 00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 1: can be done about it? What room has the best views? Why? 469 00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:59,520 Speaker 1: What room has the worst views? What could be done 470 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,840 Speaker 1: about that? The best place in the house, the worst 471 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,600 Speaker 1: place in the house, what can be done about it? 472 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:08,280 Speaker 1: You know what? I don't know. I don't know right 473 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 1: now what can be done about those things. But we 474 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,640 Speaker 1: can't even have the conversation if you're not aware of them. 475 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,600 Speaker 1: And that's where we begin. Does that make sense, I hope? 476 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:17,679 Speaker 2: So? 477 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:23,440 Speaker 1: Okay, probably next month we will take on our third 478 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:26,080 Speaker 1: installment of designing like a House Whisper. Of course, we 479 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:30,160 Speaker 1: get some great shows from then from now until then, 480 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:34,080 Speaker 1: as always, and so yeah, I think that's a good 481 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:37,199 Speaker 1: wrap on today's content. Just a real quick thought. I 482 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 1: want to leave you with this thought today. You know, 483 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 1: let's take a moment to remember why we're all here. 484 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,480 Speaker 1: I hope you have a great time enjoying the super 485 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 1: Bowl if that's your thing, or the commercials if that's 486 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:50,280 Speaker 1: your thing, or something else if that's your thing, whatever 487 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,280 Speaker 1: it is, I hope you've got great plans for the day. 488 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,360 Speaker 1: But I'll leave you this just one simple thought today. 489 00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:00,880 Speaker 1: All of this building on our theme of seeing the world, 490 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,720 Speaker 1: seeing your property for what it really is. You know what, 491 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:09,080 Speaker 1: boredom in our world. It's becoming more prevalent. And that's 492 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 1: crazy when you consider that there's more information, more stuff 493 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,520 Speaker 1: to see, more stuff to do, more stuff coming at 494 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:20,360 Speaker 1: you constant that's new and novel and different than you 495 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:26,600 Speaker 1: could focus on in a thousand lifetimes. And yet it's 496 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:30,040 Speaker 1: so superficial. It's so thin, it's so fast foody, it's 497 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:35,520 Speaker 1: so not requiring anything of you. The people are still bored. 498 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:39,520 Speaker 1: Sometimes people are bored instantly. They're not being stimulated every 499 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:43,080 Speaker 1: twenty seconds. You know what, That has nothing to do 500 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,840 Speaker 1: with the amount of good stuff around you. That has 501 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,240 Speaker 1: to do with you and me. It has to do 502 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,719 Speaker 1: with where our heads are at. And I'll leave you 503 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,280 Speaker 1: with this quote today, and it has to do with 504 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:57,280 Speaker 1: everything we've talked about and hopefully things even deeper and 505 00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:59,560 Speaker 1: more relevant in all of our lives. It's from the 506 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:04,760 Speaker 1: French novelist Marcel Proust, who famously said the real voyage 507 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:10,080 Speaker 1: of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in 508 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:17,320 Speaker 1: finding new eyes. Yeah, that's true, eyes to see what's 509 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:20,720 Speaker 1: right in front of our face. There is a universe 510 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 1: waiting for us to discover. Boredom is not an option, 511 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:26,960 Speaker 1: and you don't need every input from the Internet to 512 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 1: do it. Sometimes you just need to sit in somebody's backyard, 513 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:35,760 Speaker 1: in your backyard and just look and look and look 514 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:41,360 Speaker 1: until you see it. Then it changes the game. I 515 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,120 Speaker 1: want that for you, all right, y'all, have a great week, 516 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,400 Speaker 1: have a great weekend, have a great Super Bowl today, 517 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,240 Speaker 1: and we will see you right back here next weekend. 518 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:53,200 Speaker 1: This has been Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. 519 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:56,280 Speaker 1: Tune into the live broadcast on KFI AM six forty 520 00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:59,520 Speaker 1: every Saturday morning from six to eight Pacific time and 521 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,840 Speaker 1: every Sunday morning from nine to noon Pacific time, or 522 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:06,280 Speaker 1: anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.